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Old 18th August 2008
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The first two are nothing to do with FreeBSD. Adobe owns flash, and they refuse to provide usable support outside of windows. The quicker someone does a rm -rf adobe\*, the better. Open source implementations are out there, (swf-dec and gnash), and they are improving, but are not likely to provide a workable situation.
Ditto the 3D accelleration. As ATI releases specs, the xorg crowd will develop good open source drivers, which, if well written, will be quickly ported. rm -Rf nvidia\*, though. They seem a lost cause.

As for your others, most of this can be traced back to errors in ACPI implementations in BIOSes.We are stuck with hacking workarounds to broken hardware - not something that makes a programmer happy, but they know ti has to be done. Try, search and then send a PR or post in the mailing list. That is where things get done.
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